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With a communication-centered framework that brings together communication studies, sociology, and political science, this book explains how people adopt and maneuver mobile technologies as tactics of contention for political mobilization in contentious moments and everyday resistance in contemporary China.

Our paper discusses the role of the institutional communication of politics during emergencies. We examine the impacts of that communication on the management of over-communication (excessive, confused and uncertain information and knowledge) and under-communication (deficiencies in information and knowledge) to reduce potential knowledge-behaviour gaps (KBGs) in the audience. By outlining some of the controversies and overloads within such communication in Italy during the COVID-19 emergency, we underline a situation of entropy that has increased the KGB among audiences at multiple levels. We also highlight the emergence of three patterns that could potentially mitigate the KGB and re-establish coherent and balanced communication to manage emergencies: time, power, and reactions based on relationships. We argue that communication should (1) respect synchronicity, (2) take into account the power of the audience and create a segmented form of knowledge and (3) be based on interaction, participation, and relational-based messages that will favour coherent reactions.

This study presents how politics was portrayed and narrated through memes in Poland during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings confirm that memes were indicators of opinions and an expression of a collective identity, which could contribute to sociopolitical polarization by creating "enemy" images of disliked politicians as "villains".

Our starting point is that there are gender differences in the use of language linked to masculine/feminine role identity, and not to alleged essentialist, intrinsic features. The research is a contribution to the understanding of links between linguistic behaviors and socio-psychological processes, as these relate to agency and ingroup/outgroup differentiation and to gender roles. We conducted our descriptive study on 441 parliamentary speeches delivered between 1976 and 2009 by four Italian politicians, differentiated by gender and political affiliation. We expected a higher degree of agency as well as higher ingroup/outgroup differentiation for male than for female politicians with a trend towards a lesser degree of gender differences in the later period (1994-2009) because of the feminine emancipatory processes in the Italian society and parliament. The indicators of high/low agency were: pronouns and verbs in the first person singular/plural, and conditional modal verbs. For the ingroup/outgroup differentiation, we used pronouns in the first and second person plural. We conducted a quantitative textual analysis and a qualitative contextual analysis. Our results confirm the hypothesis in part. We advanced some contextualist considerations to interpret the outcomes.

Examines antecedents and consequences of relationships between politicians and communications professionals working in electoral committees, political parties, government agencies, consultancies, polling agencies, and other related organizations; 11 articles. Also published as a monograph by The Haworth Press, Inc. (LC 2003002282) (ISBN soft. 0-7890-2159-5) ($24.95) (ISBN hard. 0-7890-2158-7) ($34.95). Contents: The merging of public relations and political marketing, by Bruce I. Newman and Dejan Vercic; The material culture of US elections: artisanship, entrepreneurship, ephemera and two centuries of trans-atlantic exchange, by Philip John Davies; News management and new managerialism: Quangos and their media relations, by David Deacon and Wendy Monk; New labour: a study of the creation, development and demise of a political brand, by Jon White and Leslie de Chernatony; Political marketing research in the 2000 U.S. election, by Elaine Sherman and Leon G. Schiffman; The 2000 American presidential election: lessons from the closest contest in American history, by Dennis W. Johnson; Who pays the piper? the funding of political campaigning in the UK, US and the consequences for political marketing and public affairs, by Phil Harris; Communicative diplomacy for the 3rd millennium: soft power of small countries like Slovenia? by Kristina Plavsak; Models of voter behavior: the 2000 Slovenia parliamentary elections, by Dejan Vercic and Iztok Verdnik; Structural models of voter behavior in the 2000 Polish presidential election, by Andrzej Falkowski and Wojciech Cwalina; Testing a predictive model of voter behavior on the 2000 presidential election, by Bruce I. Newman.